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'understand and construct my invention I S. S. HERSEY, OF LHARMINGTON,MAINE.

APPLE-PARERI.

Speccation of Letters Patent No'. 32,561, dated June 18, 1861.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, S. S. HERsnY, of Farmington, in the county ofFranklin and State o Maine, have invented a new and ImprovedApple-Fairer; and I do hereby declare that the following is' a full,clear,`and exact description of the same, reference being had to theannexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figurel is a plan or top View of my invention. Figs. 2 and 3, side elevationsof the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate cor responding parts in theseveral figures.

This invention consists in a novel and improved arrangement of a spring,knife-bar and gearing, substantially as hereinafter shown and described,whereby a very simple and eflicient apple-paring device is obtained.

The invention further consists in the employment or use of a lever soapplied and arranged as to serve as a stop or guard to insure theharmonious action of the working parts.

To enable those skilled in the art to fully will proceed to describeit.'

A, represents a small upright frame the lower part of which may besecured to a bench or tableby a screw B, which in connection withlateral projections o, a, form a clamp, as shown clearly in Fig.v 3.

To the upper part of the upright A, a spur wheel C, is attached, saidwheel being provided with ahandle D, for the purpose of turning it. Thewheel C, gears into a pinion E, which is on a shaft F, the bearings b,of which are at `one end of a horizontal plate Gr, which is secured tothe upper end of the upright. The shaft F,has a fork H at its outer end,said fork being constructed in the usual or in any proper way.

At the inner side of the spur wheel C, there is a toothed wheel I, whichgears into a toothed sector J. This wheel has a smooth or untoothedsurfaced", and the aXis or shaft K, of the sector J, is parallel withthe plate G, as shown clearly in Fig. 1. The bearings o, c, of the shaftK, are at the ends of arms (Z, (l, which project from the plate G, andon the shaft K, between the bearings o, o, there is placed a spiralspring L, one end of which is connected to an arm e, which projects atright angles from a bar M, to one end of which a knife-head N, isattached.

This knifeehead N is simply a rectangular frame provided with a throatf, in which the knife O is placed. The knife-bar M, is attached by ajoint g, to the toothed sector J. Tithn the throat f, of the knife-headN, there is secured a metal plate O. This plate is equal in width to theknife and it projects from the outer side of the knifehead in a curvedform, as shown clearly in Fig. 1.

On the inner side of the spur wheel C, near its periphery there is aprojection h, and to the lower part of the upright A, there is attacheda lever l), which lever is directly under or in the'same plane with thesector J.

The operation .of the machine is as follows: An apple is placed on thefork I-I, and the' spur wheel C, is turned in the direction indicated bythe arrow l in Fig. 1, the fork H, turning inthe direction indicated byarrow 2. As the fork and apple rotate, the knife-head N travels aroundthe lower part of the apple from one end to the other, and the knife 0takes the peel from the apple, the plate or deflector O', casting thepeel or parings off from the machine preventing them coming in contactwith the gearing. The spring L, performs two functions, to wit, it keepsthe knife O, to its work and it also throws the knife back toitsoriginal position after it completes its work. The sector J, it will beseen produces the traveling movement of the knife-head N, the spring L,operating when the last tooth of the wheel I, adjoining the smoothsurface ax, leaves the tooth at the end of sector J.

As the sector J is turned its periphery acts on the outer end of leverP, and keeps it thrown upward, as shown clearly in Fig. 3, so that saidinner end will be in the path of the projection 7L of wheel C. Thislever prevents the wheel C, being' turned more than one revolutionbefore the knife -head is thrown back because the sector J, keeps theinner end of lever P, elevated to serve as a stop to projection L, thelever P falling after the sector J, has been thrown back.

The whole device is extremely simple, but one spring being required,that as before stated, performing two functions, and the harmoniousaction of all the parts insured.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters-Patent, isl l. The arrangement of the spring L,

l tion L, on Wheel C, n combination with the lever P7 arranged inrelation With sector J, to operate as and for the purpose set forth. 10

S. S. HERSEY. lVtnesses Ro'r. GooDENoW, GEO. E. VHITNEY.

